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The book is divided into ecclesiastical, legal, letters,
chronicles, biography, conduct books, literary and medical writings
to enable students to find sources relevant for their courses by
theme. The sources range from well-known texts such as the letters
of Abelard and Heloise, Beowulf and the Canterbury Tales to less
familiar sources such as Hincmar of Rheims, Gratian, Peter Damian
and Gregory IX, Ibn Hazm's The Ring of the Dove and Boccaccio's De
mulieribus Claris. Providing students with a range of examples to
use in their seminars and essays. This second edition has been
revised throughout to include the literature published since the
first edition and expanded to include additional material from
European, Jewish and Muslim sources as well as additional material
on same-sex relations such as the same-sex marriage rituals.
Providing students with the latest debates and sources appropriate
for how the field has progressed to inspire them in taking the
field forward themselves.
The book is divided into ecclesiastical, legal, letters,
chronicles, biography, conduct books, literary and medical writings
to enable students to find sources relevant for their courses by
theme. The sources range from well-known texts such as the letters
of Abelard and Heloise, Beowulf and the Canterbury Tales to less
familiar sources such as Hincmar of Rheims, Gratian, Peter Damian
and Gregory IX, Ibn Hazm's The Ring of the Dove and Boccaccio's De
mulieribus Claris. Providing students with a range of examples to
use in their seminars and essays. This second edition has been
revised throughout to include the literature published since the
first edition and expanded to include additional material from
European, Jewish and Muslim sources as well as additional material
on same-sex relations such as the same-sex marriage rituals.
Providing students with the latest debates and sources appropriate
for how the field has progressed to inspire them in taking the
field forward themselves.
First examination of the use made by Seamus Heaney of medieval
poetry in his translations and adaptations, including the acclaimed
Beowulf. A remarkable survey of Heaney's work and its debt to
medieval poetry. [...]McCarthy has presented a compelling analysis
of Heaney's use of medieval poetry. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW Seamus
Heaney's engagement with medieval literature constitutes a
significant body of work by a major poet that extends across four
decades, including a landmark translation of Beowulf. This book,
the first to look exclusively at this engagement, examines both
Heaney's direct translations and his adaptation of medieval
material in his original poems. Each of the four chapters focuses
substantially on a single major text: Sweeney Astray (1983),
Station Island [1984], Beowulf [1999] and The Testament of Cresseid
[2004]. The discussion examines Heaney's translation practice in
relation to source texts from a variety of languages [Irish,
Italian, Old English, and Middle Scots] from across themedieval
period, and also in relation to Heaney's own broader body of work.
It suggests that Heaney's translations and adaptations give a
contemporary voice to medieval texts, bringing the past to bear
upon contemporary concernsboth personal and political. CONOR
MCCARTHY gained his PhD from Trinity College Dublin.
Outlawry and espionage would seem to be quite different phenomena,
rarely discussed together, but this book shows that they have
something in common - both involve exclusion from law. Challenging
previous readings that view outlawry as a now-superseded historical
phenomenon, and outlaws as figures of popular resistance, Conor
McCarthy argues that legal exclusion is a longstanding and enduring
means of supporting state power. Through close analysis of the
literatures of outlawry and espionage, this book shows the
important role of literature in representing and critiquing
exclusion from law. It uncovers legal exclusion as a key theme in
writing about outlaws and spies from the Middle Ages to the present
day, as a means to offer critique and to demand justice.Texts
discussed range from the medieval Robin Hood ballads, Shakespeare's
history plays and versions of the Ned Kelly story to contemporary
writing by John le Carre, Don DeLillo, Ciaran Carson and William
Gibson.
The writings of Ireland's greatest left-wing and anti-imperialist
activist James Connolly, the greatest Marxist and socialist
thinker, organiser and leader Ireland ever produced, was also a
great internationalist and anti-imperialist writer and campaigner.
This wide-ranging anthology features a scholarly introduction which
provides background to Connolly's life, career, and influences; and
which contextualizes his work both in Ireland and internationally.
The collection of texts presented here demonstrates that Connolly's
writings are as pertinent in Ireland and the postcolonial world a
century after his execution for leadership of the 1916 Easter
Rising in Ireland as it was in his own lifetime. The Revolutionary
and Anti-Imperialist Writings of James Connolly, 1893-1916 will be
a vital and inspiring resource for students, scholars and activists
seeking to understand the tumultuous history of early-twentieth
century Ireland in both its local and imperial contexts, and
looking for the tools to understand the inequities of our
globalised world today. Key Features Offers an account of his life
and locates his work in the contexts of Irish, imperial and global
history Stresses the complex and rich dialectic in his work between
socialism and Marxism, and nationalism Demonstrates Connolly's
internationalist and anti-imperialist world-view Locates Connolly's
work in the context of Irish nationalist and republican
revolutionary thought, and international Marxism and
anti-imperialism
A survey of attitudes to marriage as represented in medieval legal
and literary texts. Medieval marriage has been widely discussed,
and this book gives a brief and accessible overview of an important
subject. It covers the entire medieval period, and engages with a
wide range of primary sources, both legal and literary. It draws
particular attention to local English legislation and practice, and
offers some new readings of medieval English literary texts,
including Beowulf, the works of Chaucer, Langland's Piers Plowman,
the Book of Margery Kempe and the Paston Letters. Focusing on a
number of key themes important across the period, individual
chapters discuss the themes of consent, property, alliance, love,
sex, family, divorce and widowhood. CONOR MCCARTHY gained his PhD
from Trinity College Dublin.
Academic freedom is under siege, as our universities become the
sites of increasingly fraught battles over freedom of speech. While
much of the public debate has focussed on 'no platforming' by
students, this overlooks the far graver threat posed by concerted
efforts to silence the critical voices of both academics and
students, through the use of bureaucracy, legal threats and online
harassment. Such tactics have conspicuously been used, with
particularly virulent effect, in an attempt to silence academic
criticism of Israel. This collection uses the controversies
surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a means of
exploring the limits placed on academic freedom in a variety of
different national contexts. It looks at how the increased
neoliberalisation of higher education has shaped the current
climate, and considers how academics and their universities should
respond to these new threats. Bringing together new and established
scholars from Palestine and the wider Middle East as well as the US
and Europe, Enforcing Silence shows us how we can and must defend
our universities as places for critical thinking and free
expression.
Examines the role of literature in representing and critiquing the
exclusion from law as an enduring tactic of state power Outlaws are
often viewed as historical figures of popular resistance, but there
is another side to legal exclusion. In offering readings from two
bodies of literature not normally read together -- the literature
of outlawry and the literature of espionage -- this book shows that
a substantial body of writing within these genres serves an
important purpose in representing and critiquing the longstanding
use of legal exclusion as a means of supporting state power.
Academic freedom is under siege, as our universities become the
sites of increasingly fraught battles over freedom of speech. While
much of the public debate has focussed on 'no platforming' by
students, this overlooks the far graver threat posed by concerted
efforts to silence the critical voices of both academics and
students, through the use of bureaucracy, legal threats and online
harassment. Such tactics have conspicuously been used, with
particularly virulent effect, in an attempt to silence academic
criticism of Israel. This collection uses the controversies
surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a means of
exploring the limits placed on academic freedom in a variety of
different national contexts. It looks at how the increased
neoliberalisation of higher education has shaped the current
climate, and considers how academics and their universities should
respond to these new threats. Bringing together new and established
scholars from Palestine and the wider Middle East as well as the US
and Europe, Enforcing Silence shows us how we can and must defend
our universities as places for critical thinking and free
expression.
Alongside existing regimes for victim redress at the national and
international levels, in the coming years international criminal
law and, in particular, the International Criminal Court, will
potentially provide a significant legal framework through which the
harm caused by egregious conduct can be addressed. Drawing on a
wealth of comparative experience, Conor McCarthy's study of the
Rome Statute's regime of victim redress provides a comprehensive
exploration of this framework, examining both its reparations
regime and its scheme for the provision of victim support through
the ICC Trust Fund. The study explores, in particular, whether the
creation of a regime of victim redress has a role to play as part
of a system for the administration of international criminal
justice and, more generally, whether it has such a role alongside
other regimes, at the national and international levels, by which
the harm suffered by victims of egregious conduct may be redressed.
One of the most famous literary critics of the twentieth century,
Edward Said's work has been hugely influential far beyond academia.
As a prominent advocate for the Palestinian cause and a noted music
critic, Said redefined the role of the public intellectual. In his
books, as scholarly as they are readable, he challenged
conventional critical demarcations between disciplines. His major
opus, Orientalism, is a key text in postcolonial studies that
continues to influence as well as challenge scholars in the field.
Conor McCarthy introduces the reader to Said's major works and
examines how his work and life were intertwined. He explains
recurring themes in Said's writings on literature and empire, on
intellectuals and literary theory, on music and on the
Israel/Palestine conflict. This concise, informative and clearly
written introduction for students beginning to study Said is
ideally set up to explain the complexities of his work to new
audiences.
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Thinking Palestine (Paperback)
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This book brings together an inter-disciplinary group of
Palestinian, Israeli, American, British and Irish scholars who
theorise 'the question of Palestine'. Critically committed to
supporting the Palestinian quest for self determination, they
present new theoretical ways of thinking about Palestine. These
include the 'Palestinization' of ethnic and racial conflicts, the
theorization of Palestine as camp, ghetto and prison, the
tourist/activist gaze, the role of gendered resistance, the
centrality of the memory of the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe) to the
contemporary understanding of the conflict, and the historic roots
of the contemporary discourse on Palestine. The book offers a novel
examination of how the Palestinian experience of being governed
under what Giorgio Agamben names a 'state of exception' may be
theorised as paradigmatic for new forms of global governance. An
indispensable read for any serious scholar.
Alongside existing regimes for victim redress at the national and
international levels, in the coming years international criminal
law and, in particular, the International Criminal Court, will
potentially provide a significant legal framework through which the
harm caused by egregious conduct can be addressed. Drawing on a
wealth of comparative experience, Conor McCarthy's study of the
Rome Statute's regime of victim redress provides a comprehensive
exploration of this framework, examining both its reparations
regime and its scheme for the provision of victim support through
the ICC Trust Fund. The study explores, in particular, whether the
creation of a regime of victim redress has a role to play as part
of a system for the administration of international criminal
justice and, more generally, whether it has such a role alongside
other regimes, at the national and international levels, by which
the harm suffered by victims of egregious conduct may be redressed.
One of the most famous literary critics of the twentieth century,
Edward Said's work has been hugely influential far beyond academia.
As a prominent advocate for the Palestinian cause and a noted music
critic, Said redefined the role of the public intellectual. In his
books, as scholarly as they are readable, he challenged
conventional critical demarcations between disciplines. His major
opus, Orientalism, is a key text in postcolonial studies that
continues to influence as well as challenge scholars in the field.
Conor McCarthy introduces the reader to Said's major works and
examines how his work and life were intertwined. He explains
recurring themes in Said's writings on literature and empire, on
intellectuals and literary theory, on music and on the
Israel/Palestine conflict. This concise, informative and clearly
written introduction for students beginning to study Said is
ideally set up to explain the complexities of his work to new
audiences.
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